Re: message-confirm-send

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>>> I suppose it's all a bit too much effort (needs MTA cooperation etc) for
>>> the gain though.  [and would probably cause tons of complaints about
>>> your "slow" mail system...]
>>
>> Gnus could probably implement something like this internally, though,
>> using a concept similar to the drafts group.
>
> The problem would seem to be reliability -- once they've hit send,
> people really, _really_, don't want email to be lost or even delayed for
> longer than expected (e.g. a "undoable delay" of 5 minutes might be
> acceptable, but 2 days almost certainly isn't).

I think some internal Gnus way of undoing mails would be a mistake.  If
someone finds C-c C-c to be too dangerous, he might also use a different
key (provided he's aware that he will get used to this new key soon.)

> MTAs in general have put huge amounts of effort into making mail queuing
> fairly reliable, but I think any Gnus specific solution is bound to be
> less so (and it's probably a lot of work to make it reliable).

I tend to use C-c C-d more and more myself.  Not only when I'm offline,
but also when I plan to quickly review the mail I send.

-- 
Bastien